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class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>أكدت الشرطة ومصادر طبية أن ما لا يقلّ عن عشرة اشخاص قتلوا وجرح ثمانية عشر آخرون عندما وقعت ثلاثة انفجارات متتابعة في حي الوشاش غرب العاصمة بغداد أمس الاثنين،أمنيا ايضا، قتل جنديان عراقيان في هجوم بمسدسات كاتمة للصوت وسط سوق شعبية شرق الموصل، ومساء أمس، قتل مختار ناحية العياضية، غرب الموصل، على يد مسلحين مجهولين عندما كان امام منزله في الناحية </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13636"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/05/%d8%a5%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a9-%d8%ab%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ab%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d8%b4%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b5-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%87%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a3%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%81%d8%ac%d8%a7%d8%b1/#respond" title="Comment on إصابة ثلاثة أشخاص بينهم امرأة بانفجار عبوة ناسفة شمال بعقوبة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on September 5th, 2011 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a 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eighteen. They share a cell at the Juveniles’ prison in Baghdad, away from their families that live in Dawrah, south of the capital. Both boys joined armed groups and participated in bloody acts of violence in 2006. What distinguishes them is that they are members in opposing groups that kill based on identity.</p> <p>Prison may be the best destiny for the two boys. Hundreds of their peers were killed in battles or were blown to pieces in suicide bombings for which they were recruited by armed organizations.</p> <p>Asa’ad Husam Eddin prefers to stay in jail so that he does not become subject to a tribal judgment that condemns him to death for participating in four members of one family. During his childhood, Asa’ad was known by the name “Al-‘Allas”, a term in Iraqi dialect describing children recruited as informers for armed groups. Among his duties was to select a target and monitors its movements so that the armed group could abduct and execute him.</p> <p>According to his confessions, Asa’ad was active in monitoring people in his neighborhood, and informing Al-Qa’eda elements about their moves, in return for $200 per person.</p> <p>Omran Abbas has a similar record, except that he used to work for the opposing group. He is spending a sentence of 15 years in jail after being convicted of committing acts of violence in Abu Dsheir area, one street from Al-Daourah. Residents of the two areas belong to two different confessions. Abbas was fourteen when he joined armed groups opposing Al-Qa’eda. He participated in acts of violence during the peak of confessional violence in 2006. Shortly before that, his father was kidnapped by Al-Qa’eda, and was later found beheaded in the ‘no-man’s-land” separating the two “fighting” areas.</p> <p>As an act of revenge for a lost relative, or to follow in someone’s footsteps, many boys whom we met at the Juvenile Prison, such as Nathem Jabbar, Mahdi Hassan and Sa’doun, and hundreds of others, fell victim to the phenomenon of recruiting children by armed groups that emerged after the battles of the spring and summer of 2004 in Al-Fallujah and Al-Najaf.</p> <p>A number of armed groups emerged in Iraq after those brutal battles, and spread between Sunni and Shi’ite affiliations. Most of these organizations, however, participated in battles over time, but the major part ended after the spring of 2008. <br/>The most dangerous organization, which continued practicing violence with a steady methodology, was Al-Qa’eda that concentrated its operations after 2003 in Al-Anbar region. It then managed to control a number of cities and governorates such as Salaheddin, Ninewa, South Kirkuk, South Baghdad and North Babel.</p> <p>The phenomenon of recruiting children by Al-Qa’eda developed form training them in monitoring, collection of information and transferring messages among combatants, to planting explosive devices and participating in killings, to carrying out suicide bombings, in the peak of sectarian violence between 2006 and 2007.</p> <h3>Suicide, Revenge and Kidnap</h3> <p>Before that, recruiting children in suicide bombings was rare and rather erratic. The first operation was carried out by a child of ten years in the fall of 2005, targeting the chief of Kirkuk police (250 kilometers north of Baghdad). After about two months, two children carried out two suicide bombings against the American forces in Al-Fallujah, Al-Anbar province (110 kilometers northwest of the capital, and Al-Huwijeh of the Kirkuk governorate. In the summer of 2008, a child of ten years, disguised as a peddler, followed one of the most prominent leaders of Al-Sahwah in Tarmiyyeh area, Sheikh Emad Jassem, for three consecutive days, after which he succeeded in detonating himself near the Sheikh, whose leg was amputated as a result of the explosion. In the same year, a girl of thirteen carried out a suicide bombing in Ba’quba, the central city of Deyala governorate (57 kilometers east of Baghdad) resulting in the death of a number of Al-Sahwah followers.</p> <p>The military leader who investigated that operation, as well as a number of child suicide bombings in Deyala, points out that most operations carried out by children are “revengeful” in nature and mostly take place in areas where Al-Qa’eda influence has subsided in favor of Al-Sahwah.</p> <p>The Media official in Al-Anbar police headquarters, however, sees that “some suicide bombings were not vengeful in nature. The last of these operations were carried out by two children, one of whom had been sedated and the other was mentally unstable.”  The two children were fit with explosive belts and sent to checkpoints. However, a mistake in the timing of the explosive belts enabled the security forces to dismantle them, according to the media official. He further explains that “fitting explosive belts around children’s bodies is a tactic used by Al-Qa’eda over the past years.”  Another method used was to send closed explosive packages by hand with children, and to detonate them from a distance the minute the children are in close proximity to security forces or when they board civilian cars or arrive in markets.”</p> <p>The father of the mentally deranged suicide bomber child says that his son Ghazi was kidnapped from in front of the family house in Al-Khaldiyyah area of Al-Anbar, a former stronghold of Al-Qa’eda. His fate was unknown until he was found near the checkpoint with an explosive belt around his waist. Ghazi’s father is now very worried because his younger son was also kidnapped at the beginning of last October, and might be used in the same manner unless he pays the ransom the kidnappers demand.</p> <p>Dirgham, a mongoloid child was booby-trapped by elements from Al-Qa’eda after he was tempted to buy sweets from a shop near a security center where elements from the police force shop during their break. The child was killed, and with him a number of policemen and shoppers. Despite this, the child’s father refuses to criticize Al-Qa’eda in fear that they might return one day.</p> <h3>Fathers Fear Children</h3> <p>Fear from Al-Qa’eda’s revenge is not restricted to Dirgham’s father, but extends to many people with whom this report-writer talked. They refrained from telling their experiences with the process their children were recruited.</p> <p>A high-ranking officer from Al-Anbar says that sleeping Al-Qa’eda cells become active during certain periods, then go back to sleep, which indicates that risking the exposure of details may not be liked by the organization, and may mean paying with lives. This officer tells the story of three children who burnt their father to death.  The father was a moderate religious man. They placed him between old rubber tires and set them on fire, simply because he criticized Al-Qa’eda.</p> <p>We asked one of the fathers if he had made any effort to prevent his children from joining Al-Qa’eda. He answered: “I lived for years hesitating to take any step such as this, afraid that they may kill me if I went too far.”Although the son left Iraq to a neighboring country after the defeats Al-Qa’eda received, the father continues to be careful that the son may one day return.</p> <p>Faris Al-Obeidi summarizes children’s motives in joining armed groups in two words: “poverty” and “revenge.”</p> <p>An official in research at the Juveniles’ Prison, however, believes that “unemployment and family disintegration” are the main reasons, in addition to some sort of “ideological thought” that prevails at home, as the first incubator that attracts children to the circle of violence. Iraq is “eligible for its children to pursue violence, because it lived for decades in a state of conflict and continuous wars.”</p> <p>Fawwaz Ibrahim, the social researcher relates this phenomenon to the period preceding 2003; the date of the American invasion of Baghdad. Years before that date, “children, named ‘Saddam’s Cubs’ participated in operations of killing and cutting hands and tongues in many areas. Militarization of children was part of the militarization of society which the last century witnessed.”  At that time, “Al-Tala’e organization, which was part of the Ba’ath party used to recruit children in groups affiliated with the authority, to monitor the neighbor, street, the school and even the home, reporting periodically about anybody suspected of opposing the regime.”</p> <p>The researcher connects between the practices of the followers of Al-Tala’e and the specialty of most recruited children in reporting to armed organizations about all details going on in their vicinity.</p> <p>He is joined in this rhetoric the researcher Al-Obaidi: “For a person to be a hero in an ideological army is something like a dream that children have when living in a society dominated by violence.”  Hence, Al-Obaidi sees that “recruitment will not be difficult in a society where children boast about flaunting their power, that starts with carrying plastic toy weapons and forming groups to launch imaginary attacks from one street to another, declaring allegiance to armed groups that have a strong grip on areas, attending their events and military parades.”</p> <h3>Going Along with the Party in Power</h3> <p>Ali Al-Massoudi, the activist specializing in armed groups’ thought has documented a number of the features of children joining armed groups. He sees that recruitment depends basically on “the recruited child’s environment”. In most cases, the child gets carried away with the prevailing beliefs prevailing in his home, street and neighborhood where he lives. Al-Massoudi divides this phenomenon into four levels: Information collection or monitoring (less than ten years), carrying firearms, participating in guard duties and checkpoints (13 – 18 years) and getting involved in violent operations such as kidnapping, killing and participating in street fights (15 – 18 years). The more dangerous level, according to Al-Massoudi, is carrying out suicide operations, normally connected to Al-Qa’eda organization.</p> <p>The first level prevails in “areas that are closed ideologically, especially during the period of confessional violence when armed groups enjoyed the sympathy of the area residents.”  Children grouping t crossroads were active in informing armed men about the arrival of American troops, preparing to detonate explosives near them.</p> <p>One specialist at the Ministry of Interior says that recruiting children is not restricted to one armed group and not the other, “despite variation in the level of their concentration.”  This specialist saw for himself large numbers of children carrying arms at the “Jund El-Sama’a (Soldiers of Heaven) camp in the Zarka area, 13 kilometers north east of the holy city of Al-Najaf, holy to Shi’ite Muslims (160 kilometers south of Baghdad), during confrontations that took place between them and Iraqi forces in early 2007. But he believes that the more dangerous organization for children is Al-Qa’eda, which established organizations specializing in enticing children under soft names like “birds of heaven, youth of heaven and cubs of heaven.”</p> <p>The expert mentioned that the “Birds of Heaven” organization, which was active in Al-Anbar and Deyala when Al-Qa’eda controlled them was for the “children of the leadership and elements of Al-Qa’eda in Iraq.”  The Cubs and Children of heaven organizations were used to “lure children with certain specifications that qualify them to indulge in battles and carry out suicide bombings.”</p> <h3>Camps for Brainwashing</h3> <p>After a raid in November of 2006 on a ‘hideout’ for Al-Qa’eda north of Baghdad, the American forces discovered an electronic storage device that had information on children’s sleeping cells, in addition to details regarding recruiting them and training them for armed operations.</p> <p>The Director of Operations at the Ministry of Interior Colonel Abdul Kareem Khalaf asserts that Al-Qa’eda organization is “the major party that depended on child recruitment from poor families, and those who were subjected to intellectual changes towards extremism through religious training courses organized in mosques without censorship.”</p> <p>The most important areas where Al-Qa’eda trained children on armed operations is Al-Mukhaiseh remote area, which falls within the Humrain hills band in Deyala governorate, according to Colonel Khalaf. “Hundreds of children from both genders were exposed to brainwashing and continuous training under the supervision of experts from Al-Qa’eda, some of whom arrived from outside Iraq for this purpose.”</p> <p>According to Colonel Khalaf, recruitment did not target poor families and those transformed to extremism only. There were remnants from those who were known as Saddam’s Cubs. These form a large group that entered continuous training camps until 2003.</p> <p>The most dangerous children who were involved in armed operations and the most vicious were the children and brothers of activists in Al-Qa’eda. All these, according to Colonel Khalaf, were trained in areas with winding roads and orchards with thick trees and vegetation that are difficult to access, in addition to the remote areas extending deep into the desert.</p> <p>Child training camps spread in areas under the control of Al-Qa’eda for years. There are camps in Deyala, Al-Anbar and Al-Mada’en south of Baghdad, in addition to border areas adjacent to Syria in the west and Iran in the east.</p> <h3>A New Generation of Al-Qa’eda</h3> <p>One of the former Al-Qa’eda theorists told the report writer at a detention center run by the Ministry of Interior that recruiting children “is carried out</p> <p>A New Generation of Al-Qa’eda</p> <p>One of Al-Qa’eda’s former theoreticians tells the report writer from his Interior Ministry prison cell that the recruitment of children is “done under the direct supervision of Al-Qa’eda leaderships.”  The first step begins by “encouraging the children to take Quran memorization classes,” especially those who have specific characteristics, such a good build and excessive obedience.  Hikmat adds:  “We take into consideration the family they belong to, whether it is known for radicalism or not.  Then we join them to groups older of age to nourish them intellectually in preparation for giving them assignments, like moving cash and publications for the organization’s members.”  After that, “they are assigned to transport explosive devices and sometimes planting them in certain areas, then we put them in armed operations that sometimes require them to engage in direct confrontations.”</p> <p>One of the dissents of Al-Qa’eda gives an expanded description of the stages of building the children’s networks by specialists in Al-Qa’eda who succeeded in brainwashing the brains of a large number of children whose fathers or brothers had been killed.  Abul Waleed is a nickname that a man in his late forties gave himself who previously worked with Al-Qa’eda, then moved to Al-Sahwah forces before he ultimately abandoned both and secluded himself in a house he rented in a area on the outreaches of southern Baghdad.  Abul Waleed says:  “The first cells specializing in child recruitment launched after the battles of 2004 south of the capital city and included nearly 100 children who were carefully selected to ensure that they fulfill dangerous duties, foremost suicide bombings.”</p> <p>Abul Waleed summarizes Al-Qa’eda’s strategy for recruiting this youth by saying that children are registered in religious classes that focus on “Quranic verses and sayings by the Prophet that encourage fighting the enemies, the infidels and the renegades.”  After that, says Abul Waleed, they are shown videos of suicide operations previously executed by the organization’s members in Iraq and Afghanistan against foreign forces.  Experts seek to convince the youth that they can do this to preserve the faith and that they will be heroes of Islam and remembered by future generations.  This thought in particular “was the obsession that the experts use to influence the thoughts of most of the youth and ensures that the spirit of bravery and courage is raised within them.”</p> <p>The majority of those selected for the child recruitment cells, Abul Waleed discloses, are the offspring of Al-Qa’eda members or who known for their hard-line tendencies at an early age.  Some “begin the recruitment stage with enthusiasm but soon try to backtrack, and therefore Al-Qa’eda is forced to make them continue by threatening to tell their parents or the authorities about their participation in the training or threaten to kill them or liquidate their families if they change their minds.”</p> <p>The most dangerous, says Abul Waleed, are “those that have lost their parents at the hands of the American or Iraqi forces or even as a result of internal strife.”  These “do not need much effort to be encouraged to execute combat and even suicide operations.  It is enough to concentrate on the idea that they will be avenging their murdered family if they execute suicide operations.”</p> <p>Child recruitment serves four purposes: </p> <ul> <li>Ensuring that there are new combatant generation that expand the presence of the organization, increase its power and assault and make up for the deficit of combatants, which the organization suffered from after losing the areas near Syria to Al-Sahwah forces and the security forces. </li> <li>Taking advantage of children’s easy movement and that the security authorities do not pay attention to them or doubt them when they cross check points. </li> <li>Maintaining the momentum of suicide operations that kill more people and give the organization attention in the media, thus increasing the terror it spreads. </li> <li>Bring in more combatants by promoting the idea that children are braver than men who failed to join Al-Qa’eda to fight for the sake of God.</li> </ul> <p>Abul Waleed states here that the leader of Al-Qa’eda in Iraq, Abu Mos’ab Al-Zarqawi, who was killed in American air raid in mid 2006, addressed an audio message chastising the men who did not join the organization after a woman executed a suicide operation in Deyala (see link 2).</p> <h3>The Young Instead of the Old</h3> <p>A high level security source in Al-Anbar province adds a fifth reason that he says he had seen up close and personal.  The majority of children’s suicide attacks were directed at Al-Sahwah men, which means that Al-Qa’eda wanted to terrorize the Al-Sahwah men and tell them they are “killed at the hands of their children.”</p> <p>Researcher Faris Al-Obeidi confirms what Abul Waleed says and adds that Al-Qa’eda did not keep the recruitment of children secret, but rather promoted them and featured trainings on websites and YouTube.</p> <p>Al-Obeidi refers to a videotape of children between 10-12 years of age wearing black clothes and covering their faces with masks as Al-Qa’eda members do, and training on weapons, make-belief kidnapping, breaking into a house after climbing its walls.  The videotape was shown extensively (see link 3) after Al-Qa’eda lost much of its popularity in its home environment, believes Al-Obeidi, and after the process of recruiting local combatants became difficult and bringing in foreign combatants even more difficult because of the control of the Iraqi forces on most of the border line with Syria.</p> <p>The sheikh and speaker of one of the mosques in the city of Ramadi in the center of Al-Anbar province pointed to a “jurisprudence dispute about the dividing line between childhood and manhood”, and believed that “this dispute helped Al-Qa’eda penetrate into the minds of targeted people and facilitated the consideration of children’s recruitment as a legitimate matter.”</p> <p>The sheikh, who is considered one of the leading moderate men of religion in Al-Ramadi city, reminded that Islam “banned the use of children and women in the execution of any acts that anger God and their recruitment for the purpose of executing suicide actions that lead to the killing of innocent people, whether civilians or even policemen, and it is prohibited.”</p> <p>While religious scholars agree that Jihad is a duty of every Muslim, but it is “within conditions specified in the Islamic Sharia Law, most important of which that it must be based on wrong jurisprudence, such as rendering another an apostate or deciding that he has violated religion because he disagreed on jurisprudence issues, as Al-Qa’eda does and which has rendered everyone an apostate, including the followers of the Sunni sects that do not support it.”</p> <p>The sheikh expresses regret that hard-line ideas calling for killing are spreading mostly in the rigid tribal communities, where the level of education is low and the culture of violence is prolific, unlike the moderate environment that is considered strongholds for moderate men of religion who cannot guarantee the security of their lives if they propose their ideas outside of this environment.</p> <p>The word “Jihad” captivated the young boy, Yaser Thanoun, and encouraged him to work with Al-Qa’eda.  His elder brother was killed in Al-Fallujah battles in 2004.  Yaser completely believes that resisting the occupation is a duty for every Muslim, and says:  “I did not join Al-Qa’eda in search of money, as some of my friends have.”  He settled for an income of 70,000 to 100,000 Dinars (around $80) to cover his expenses after blowing up every explosive or carrying out a combat operation against the government forces.  After the death of his combatant brother, Yaser had to join the organization on a full time basis and left his work as a smith that was providing for his family.  “The money was not my objective, but rather the Jihad against the occupiers,” says Yaser, who was captured after he engaged in battle against Iraqi police personnel in Fallujah in 2008.</p> <p>The situation is different for Nuseir.  His belief in the necessity of Jihad was not the thing that pushed him to join the armed groups.  His friends were the ones that convinced him to take part in the armed operations with them under the command of Al-Qa’eda.</p> <p>Nuseir’s father spoke proudly with a tone of sadness of his son.  After Nuseir trained to use weapons and launch rockets, his father says, “he participated in the bombing of American forces in Al-Mazra’a area in the east of Fallujah, then the joint check point at the city’s entrance.”  After that, Nuseir joined the armed factions in battle in the city, and was arrested in 2007 and was transported to Boca prison.  He remained in prison for one year and a half until he was released under the general pardon.  He was soon killed by an unknown group when he was walking in the city.</p> <p>The bereaved father refuses to talk about his son’s movements after he got out of prison.  Yet he confirms that “he received threats from groups that the opponents of the group he belonged to,” in an indication that he was back with his initial group.</p> <p>The mourning father criticizes “the government for releasing so many of the prisoners before they were able to reform them and convince them to abandon the violence.”  He demands the government to monitor “the mosques which have become in their majority lairs that attract the youth.”</p> <h3>The responsibility of the family</h3> <p>Senior Secretary General of the Interior Ministry, Adnan Al-Asadi, however, accuses the children’s families of being the first to bring harm to them because they left them unobserved.</p> <p>Al-Asadi says:  “The boys who got involved in armed groups found the easy money and social influence an earning worth the risk by working with Al-Qa’eda members.”  Al-Asadi however believes, and according to the results of investigations with a large number of the “Birds of Heaven” children and “the boys of heaven”, that the number of suicide operations executed by children is “small” compared to other types of operations such as “monitoring and logistical support for the militants.”</p> <p>The idea of killing, believes Al-Asadi, “is no longer receiving response from the children, especially after the decline of the influence of Al-Qa’eda’s and the armed groups that have lost their strongholds in Al-Anbar, Deyala, Salaheddin, Ninawa and areas south of Baghdad.”</p> <p>Researcher Faris Al-Obeidi believes that rehabilitating hundreds of children who engaged in militant work requires “a great deal of social and government effort and this is difficult to achieve in view of the economic, security and political instability in Iraq.”</p> <p>In the final outcome, these are part of a mobile social system, and if they do not have a sound environment to help them integrate in their societies, “they will definitely go back to the armed groups that had provided them with a sense of belonging.”</p> <p>Juvenile rehabilitation plans currently adopted are not convincing to the prison director, who complains that the building cannot accommodate “the large number of juveniles, given that the current building is a temporary alternative for the original prison that was overtaken by refugees refusing so far to leave it despite all official attempts.”</p> <p>The juvenile prison building is similar to an elementary school.  It is nothing more than a yard surrounded by four prison cells and a few small rooms for the guards, as well as a caravan for the prison director to do his job.</p> <p>The research unit chief in prison that the lack of entertainment facilities and training workshops have not helped the prison staff to lower the number of medical cases that usually accompany imprisonment, such as the depression that many prisoners suffer from because they feel neglected by their own families.</p> <p>The research chief believes that terrorism prisoners are inherently “good” people, but have been exploited and taken advantage of because of their difficult life conditions.</p> <p>A field study by a researcher in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs indicates that family disintegration is responsible for half of the reasons that lead children’s integration in registered organizations.</p> <h3>Field study shows the reasons behind children joining armed groups.</h3> <p>“Family disintegration was the cause that led to the recruitment of 47% of child prisoners into armed groups.”  The researcher attributes this to their residing outside the family home with relatives or friends or in workplaces.  The study found that 63% of those convicted of terrorism have engaged in armed work under influence of friends.</p> <p>The study, which was based on a sample of 80 prisoners convicted of terrorism according to Article 4, indicates that murder represents 56% of the types of crimes committed by children, while 18% of the sample planted and exploded explosive devices, and 15% executed kidnappings.</p> <p>The low educational level was prevalent among the sample.  Half of them did not pass elementary education, and 55% of the sample justified their engagement in armed operation with their belief in the resistance.  Meanwhile, political convictions and affiliations were the cause of 28% joining the armed groups.</p> <p>More than half of the children convicted of terrorism according to Article 4 and are imprisoned in the juvenile prison were sentence to more than ten years.  These are “major” sentences, believes the researcher who criticizes the fact the judges rely on Law number 111 for 1996, which places terrorism crimes under the definition of crimes, stipulating sentences to be five or more years.</p> <p>Indications however show that the rate of children’s engagement in armed groups receded a great deal in the past two years because of improving security conditions in many areas that were previously considered “hot zones.”</p> <p>This improvement, according to researcher Faris Al-Obeidi, “led to economic movement in the country, which in turn contributed to the movement of the majority of youth towards profitable professions and abandoning armed organizations where the work has become dangerous with the increase of the power of security forces.  Moreover, the ideas on which the armed groups were based “receded in a major way and do not have a standing except with religious hard-liners.”</p> <p>Interior Minister Jawad Al-Bolani confirms that Al-Qa’eda’s influence in Iraq was “broken and it has lost control over its old strongholds, which put it in a critical situation that prevents from continuing to recruit children in the manner it has been doing in past years.”  The stage of recruiting children, Al-Bolani says, “is over now, and although there are a few sleeper cells, the intelligence efforts will continue to pursue them and eliminate them in the end, sooner or later.”</p> <p>Researchers Al-Obeidi, Fawwaz Ibrahim, and Al-Massoudi, along with the research chief at the juvenile prison and the researcher in the Labor Ministry, believe that the receding phenomenon of child recruitment is not the end of the story, and that intelligence efforts, no matter how strong it is, will not be able to eliminate this phenomenon completely.  There is always a chance for it to come back if rehabilitation plans that can fortify children and protect them against extremist 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border-bottom: gray 1px solid" alt="20100529_mcclatchy_screenshot" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242im_/http://static.flickr.com/4003/4649585889_2504654bf3.jpg" align="left" border="0"/></a>ترسم صحيفة مكلاتشي صورة قاتمة لاوضاع العراقيين في بغداد، لاسيما المتقاعدون او اولئك الذين لديهم معاملات رسمية في دوائر ومؤسسات الدولة التي باتت مشلولة، بفعل تداعيات الفراغ الدستوري وازمة تشكيل الحكومة. وبالرغم من مرور ثلاثة شهور على الانتخابات البرلمانية غير الحاسمة، فانه لا يمكن للعراقيين الحصول على المعاشات التقاعدية أو التأشيرات أو حتى تصاريح البناء، فيما ينتظر العاطلون بفارغ الصبر اطلاق اكثر من 100 الف وظيفة جديدة، كان قد اقرها البرلمان المنصرف. ويشكو بعض العراقيين من ان تصويتهم في السابع من اذار الماضي كان "لا قيمة له". </p> <p>وتقدم مراسلة مكلاتشي هناء علام صورة قلمية لما يجري، من خلال نماذج عراقية.. بينها مواطن اسمه عذاب جبار يحاول اعادة ترميم مسجد كان قد بناه في احد احياء بغداد. وعندما حاول جبار استكمال ملف الأوراق التي من شأنها أن تعيد بناء المسجد الصغير اصطدم باجابة الموظف المختص : فقط بعد أن يتم تشكيل حكومة جديدة. </p> <p>وبالنسبة لمئات الآلاف من العراقيين ، مثل جبار ، فان التأخير في تشكيل الحكومة الجديدة، والتي استغرقت حتى الان ما يقرب من ثلاثة أشهر، أدى إلى تعقيد المهمات اليومية، وزاد من حالة الإحباط لدى المواطنين العراقيين التي يخيم عليها استمرار العنف وانعدام وجود الخدمات الاساسية. </p> <p>وبحسب الصحيفة فان أكثر من 100،الف وظيفة حكومية مازالت معلقة ، الى جانب مهمات يومية اخرى مثل الحصول على التراخيص والاحالة على التقاعد وغيرها من الامور ذات المساس بحياة المواطنين، بانتظار تشكيل الحكومة الجديدة.</p> <p>وفيما يواصل الفرقاء السياسيون الاختلاف والاصطراع على أيهم سيشكل الحكومة الجديدة، تزداد معاناة العراقيين، الذين يتساءلون عن جدوى مشاركتهم في الانتخابات، بينما بدأ العد التنازلي لاستحقاق الحادي والثلاثين من اب المقبل موعد الانسحاب الاميركي المجدول لتمهيد الطريق لانسحاب القوات الاميركية من دون عوائق بحلول نهاية العام المقبل. </p> <p>وألقت حالة الفراغ الدستوري وخلافات السياسيين بظلالها على الوضع الامني الهش، الذي تدهور كثيراً بعد الانتخابات، في جميع انحاء البلاد، وازدياد هجمات التفجيرات والاغتيالات، وعمليات السطو المسلح رفيعة المستوى، التي كان آخرها مقتل 14 من الصاغة في سوق البياع في رابعة النهار. </p> <p>ودفع الصراع على المناصب بين القوى السياسية وسائل الاعلام والصحف الى شن حملة انتقادات واسعة ضد السياسيين، من خلال برامج اذاعية وتلفازية ورسوم كاريكتيرية، يتم فيها تصوير النخب الحاكمة في العراق وسكان المنطقة الخضراء وهم يتنعمون بالكهرباء على مدار 24 ساعة ، ويحظون بحراس شخصيين ، من دون ان يظهرو ولو تعاطفاً قليلا عن معاناة الناس العاديين. يقول عذاب جبار "انهم ليسوا سياسيين.. انهم برابرة" ، هذا المسجد كنت أحلم ببنائه منذ طفولتي. </p> <p>افتتح جبار المسجد المتواضع بقبته الزرقاء في عام 2004، في حي الاعظمية ذي الغالبية السنية، وفي السنة التالية ، فجر مسلحون ناقلة غاز في البوابة الأمامية، ما أسفر عن مقتل أكثر من 50 شخصا. وفي صيف 2007 انفجرت قنبلة أخرى خارج المدخل. الآن ، يريد جبار الحصول على التراخيص المناسبة لاعادة بناء وترميم المسجد والحصول على دعم الحكومة لحمايته او منح حراس المسجد تصاريح حمل السلاح لحمايته. وتوقع جبار، كغيره من العراقيين، ان صعود السياسيين الشيعة وتسلمهم مقاليد الحكم يعني تقديم حماية أكبر للمؤسسات الدينية. </p> <p>ويقول جبار: في هذه الفترة الانتقالية المتوترة لا يزال المسجد عرضة للتدمير، و "ليس لدينا خيار آخر سوى أن يحمل رجالنا السلاح" بينما الساسة العراقيين يختصمون على المناصب الحكومية. </p> <p>واضاف "انهم لم يأتوا لخدمة المواطنين ، وحفظ حقوقهم ، نحن من تحدى كل شيء ، الإرهاب وقذائف الهاون والتفجيرات، للذهاب والتصويت لهؤلاء الناس، وأنا الان وصلت الى قناعة بان تصويتي كان لا قيمة له" .</p> <p>النائب تأخر الحكومة : لقد ‘شل’ الحياة اليومية </p> <p>يقول النائب بهاء الاعرجي ، القيادي في التيار الصدري ان التأخير في تشكيل حكومة تسبب بـ "شل كل سبل الحياة" . ويضيف ان (111) الف درجة وظيفية وافق عليها البرلمان المنتهية ولايته لا يزال يتعين ملؤها لأن البرلمان المقبل عليه ايضا أن يشرع قانون مجلس الخدمة المدنية ليمكن البت بهذه الوظائف.. وهذا أمر خاطئ في بلد تتراوح نسبة البطالة فيه 30 في المئة الى 40 في المئة.</p> <p>وبالنسبة للعراقيين فان جميع مناحي الحياة قد توقفت.. المعاملات العقارية والأسواق التجارية نتيجة القلق من تأخر تشكيل الحكومة الجديدة" ، وقال الاعرجي "حتى اجتماعيا ، تأثر العراقيون بسبب التأخير .. انهم لا يعرفون ما يحمله الغد لنا".</p> <p>وكان السفير الاميركي كريس هيل حث الساسة العراقيين على "ضرورة تقريب وجهات النظر فيما بينهم وبذل المزيد من المساعي والجهود للعمل على تجاوز الخلافات والمساعدة في بناء الديمقراطية في البلاد وتعزيز مسيرتها". </p> <p>ورأى التأخير في تشكيل الحكومة "أمرا ليس بالغريب في الأنظمة البرلمانية التي قد تحتاج للمزيد من الوقت للإتفاق على شكل وطبيعة المرحلة السياسية القادمة وكيفية إختيار الأنسب في قيادة البلاد والنهوض بها في مختلف المجالات"، حسب تعبيره.</p> <p>وتنقل مكلاتشي صورة اخرى من دائرة التقاعد العامة بجانب الكرخ في بغداد حيث تسود الفوضى، اذ يتجمع كبار السن من الموظفين لملء استمارات الحصول على المعاش التقاعدي، إلا أن يقال أنه لا يمكن أن تقبل طلباتهم. والسبب الذي يقدمه الموظفون هو عدم تشكيل حكومة جديدة. </p> <p>" لا يمكني العثور على مسؤول لتقديم شكوى.. ولا يوجد أحدا لتلقي الشكاوى حتى اعتقد لن تكون لدينا حكومة في اشهر" هكذا تذمر محمد موسى ، وهو عقيد متقاعد في الجيش. </p> <p>وقال فايز فالح عبد الجليل ، 30 عاما ، الذين تتمثل مهمتهم في مساعدة طالبي التقاعد لملء طلباتهم ، ان عدد المراجعين قد تقلص هذه الايام لان الناس خائفون جدا من احتمال تعرض حياتهم للخطر بسبب تردي الامن. </p> <p>واضاف فالح "نحن بلد يحتاج إلى إعادة بناء ، نحن بحاجة الى حكومة تعمل بجد من اجل مواطنيها، ولكن ما يحدث هو عكس ذلك" .</p> <p>على ضفاف نهر دجلة ، انخفض منسوب المياه بشكل كبير خلال العامين الماضيين، ويلقي الصياد طارق الهاتف اللوم في تأخير تشكيل الحكومة على السياسيين، ويقول "نحن مستمرون في تنظيف الشوارع من قبل أنفسنا مع أو من دون حكومة ، والكهرباء لا تزال غائبة مع أو من دون حكومة ، والمياه لا تزال غير متوفرة مع أو من دون حكومة ، وأخيرا ، الأمن سيء مع أو من دون حكومة"، ويتساءل الهاتف :"فلماذا يهتم الناس بوجود حكومة؟".</p> <p>ويحث رجال دين وناشطون مدنيون الفرقاء السياسيين الذين يمثلون رؤساء الكتل السياسية الفائزة في الانتخابات البرلمانية بتقديم بعض التنازلات فيما بينهم من اجل تشكيل الحكومة باسرع وقت.</p> <p>ويقولون ان تقديم التنازلات ياتي في باب رد الجميل لأبناء الشعب العراقي الذي تحدى الارهاب وتوجه الى صناديق الانتخابات وصوت لصالح من فازوا بهذه المقاعد البرلمانية، مشيرين الى ان التاخير في تشكيل الحكومة ياتي في باب تقديم المساعدة غير المباشرة الى الجماعات المسلحة والارهابية في تنفيذ مخططاتهم واستغلال الفراغ الدستوري الذي يمكن ان ينتج عن هذا التاخير.</p> <p><strong>المصدر : </strong>   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://uragency.net/index.php?aa=news&id22=7806" class="external" target="_blank">وكالة اور الاخبارية</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10350"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/04/4th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 4th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 4th, 2010 by Hussein Kareem</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/france-germany-top-eu-asylum-table-as-requests-rise-to-260000_64389.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>France, Germany top EU asylum table as requests rise to 260,000 < French news | Expatica France</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Germany received the second largest amount of asylum claims in Europe, with more than 31,000, over 7,000 of whom were Iraqis. However it topped the table of positive decisions on those aslum applications, allowing in 9,765 to France’s 5,050.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=514506&ChannelId=4" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Lebanon: Calls for end to arbitrary deportation of refugees</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> <blockquote><p>Lebanon must halt its practice of arbitrarily detaining and deporting refugees, a human rights organization said Monday.At least 14 refugees, mostly from Iraq, have been coerced into signing deportation orders since the beginning of 2010, said Berna Habib, secretary of the board at Frontiers Ruwad (FR). After unlimited periods of arbitrary detention in miserable prison conditions, the refugees are signing the orders “out of despair,” FR’s Habib told The Daily Star.Late last month, an Iraqi refugee was deported ahead of a court hearing which would have determined whether he could remain in Lebanon. Ali Faris, another recognized refugee from Iraq, was deported on March 31 through the Lebanon-Syrian border. A court hearing held after he left ruled against his expulsion, Habib said. “All deportation orders should be suspended and reviewed, meanwhile, refugees who are arbitrarily detained should be released immediately,” said Habib.At least 1,500 migrants have been detained since 2007, with half of those remaining in custody arbitrarily for months or years, she added. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_wires-navyseal_0504may04,0,7658734.story" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Judge refuses to drop charges facing Navy SEAL – dailypress.com</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The court-martial of a Navy SEAL accused of punching a suspected terrorist in Iraq opened Monday with the judge rejecting a defense motion to dismiss the case based on something Geraldo Rivera said on television.</p> <p>Attorneys for Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe of Perrysburg, Ohio, introduced a transcript of an April 22 broadcast in which Rivera told the Fox network’s Bill O’Reilly that someone close to the military official who ordered the court-martial told him the official was pressured by a higher authority not to drop the case.</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>McCabe attorney Haytham Faraj said Monday that the Rivera report suggested "unlawful command influence," and he asked that the charges be dismissed <br/>The judge, Capt. Moria Modzelewski, dismissed the TV commentary as speculation and declined the defense request.</p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Health</h3> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g46-V90DS8j1vpyarmMkIkzYVz6QD9FFQV8O0" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqis try to heal mental scars after years of war: Google News</a></strong></p> <blockquote><p>Jabar Abdul-Zahra’s flashbacks are so vivid he can feel the asphalt against his cheek that night six years ago when he lay pinned to the ground between his two critically wounded brothers, the three of them caught in the crossfire as American troops and local militiamen fought in a Baghdad neighborhood.</p> <p>The memory of waiting till dawn for the fighting to subside so he could ferry them to hospital has overshadowed the grief he felt when one brother later died from his wounds.</p> <p>But the 43-year-old computer engineer didn’t understand what was causing the flashbacks, or the palpitations and sheer terror that still overcome him whenever he sees people in uniform.</p> <p>Until he happened to get a contract to hook up the computers at a new center being set up in the backyard of the Imam Ali Hospital. There he met psychiatrist Haitham Abdul-Razaq — and found out he was one of tens of thousands of Iraqis with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.</p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/world/middleeast/04awakening.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Iraqi Sunnis Frustrated as Awakening Loses Clout – NYTimes.com</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>FALLUJA, Iraq — Sheik Aiffan Saadoun al-Aiffan stepped across a scorched patch of farmland, raised his shotgun and fired once. A bird fell to the ground.</p> <p>“Shooting Qaeda,” he said, explaining how he had honed his accuracy, fighting alongside American forces. But those times of counterinsurgency, when tribal leaders like him switched sides in what became known as the Sunni Awakening, are giving way to the rise of a new political order in Iraq.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">The recent parliamentary elections were a serious blow to the Awakening, which has been regarded as not just a movement to pacify restive areas, but also as a potential political force to re-empower Sunnis.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2080586&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>كونا : Iraqi electoral commission: Re-count results match previous results up to now – الشؤون السياسية – 04/05/2010</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> <blockquote><p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">BAGHDAD, May 4 (KUNA) — The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said the results of Monday and Tuesday’s recount of votes matched previous results up to now. <br/>Head of IHEC’s electoral department Hamdiya Al-Hussaini told KUNA here Tuesday that the results were the same, but more checking was still required. <br/>IHEC recounted on Monday votes of 600 out of Baghdad’s nearly 11,000 centers. <br/>On Tuesday, it would recount votes of 800 other centers. <br/>The Rule of Law Coalition said, Monday, it expects that the results of the recount would match previous results, if IHEC insists on ignoring the comparison of results with the voters records.(end)</p> </blockquote> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1553036.php/Two-dead-in-Iraq-violence-two-al-Qaeda-leaders-arrested-1st-Lead" class="external" target="_blank">Two dead in Iraq violence, two al-Qaeda leaders arrested</a></strong><strong>: Deutsche Presse Agentur</strong></p> <blockquote><p>Two civilians were killed and 14 injured in a attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, while police arrested two al-Qaeda leaders, security officials said. <br/>The officials said gunmen shot and killed a pharmacist working at al-Salam hospital in the northern city of Mosul.</p> <p>Meanwhile police detained alleged Saudi al-Qaeda leader Mohamed Mahmoud Salama in a raid in western Mosul, a security source told the German Press Agency dpa. <br/>The two sides exchanged fire during the raid, leaving two policemen injured. <br/>Salama is believed to have entered Iraq in 2004. He was arrested by security forces in 2006 but managed to escape.</p> <p>Security forces announced that the imam of a Sunni mosque in Mosul was shot and killed by unknown gunmen after evening prayers on Monday night.</p> <p>On Monday, an Iraqi security operation targeting the hideouts of al-Qaeda militants in the city of Baquba led to the arrest of 25 al- Qaeda members, including a prominent leader. ‘Among those arrested is the emir of Baquba, known as Haji Basem, who is involved in the deaths of 24 people and the displacement of 50 families in the area during the years of escalated sectarian violence, between 2005 and 2007,’ a security source said on Tuesday.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/04/c_13277981.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Iraqi intelligence officer killed in Baghdad bombing</strong></a><strong>: Xinhua</strong></p> <blockquote><p>An intelligence officer affiliated to Iraqi Interior Ministry was killed and a government employee was wounded by two separate bomb explosions in their cars in Baghdad on Tuesday, the police said.</p> <p>Lieutenant Colonel Ali Hussein, head of intelligence service in northern Baghdad, was killed when a bomb planted in his car detonated in Baghdad’s northern district of Kadhmiyah, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.</p> <p>The attack took place in the morning when the officer was driving to work, the source said.</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 360px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><strong>Editor’s note:</strong> The civil servant wounded in this bombing works  in the Prime minister’s office.</p> <p><em>Hussein Kareem</em></p> </p></div> <p>Meanwhile, another bomb attached to the car of an employee in the office of the Iraqi ministerial council detonated in the Qahtan Square in western Baghdad, wounding him and two civilians who were close to the scene, the source added.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/04/c_13277994.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>13 wounded in car bombing in northern Iraq</strong></a><strong>: (Xinhua) </strong></p> <blockquote><p>A booby-trapped car parked in the dense populated neighborhood of al-Dawassa in central Mosul detonated in the morning, wounding 13 people and damaging several nearby buildings and civilian cars, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. <br/>The blast occurred at the same neighborhood where the governor of Nineveh Atheel al-Nujaifi lives, the source said, adding that the blast caused no casualty to Nujaifi and his house</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQNZ-iDlwjFMX9HrXgX7-7y-RuGQD9FFRKL80" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>2 US soldiers in Iraq die in non-combat incidents</strong></a><strong>: Google News </strong></p> <blockquote><p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in Iraq from injuries sustained in separate incidents unrelated to combat.</p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p>here</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.arabianbusiness.com/585058-muddying-the-waters" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Muddying the waters – Energy – ArabianBusiness.com</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s oil minister has raised questions over the country’s planned energy expansion by indicating Baghdad would consider OPEC output curbs that may keep supply well short of ambitious capacity targets.</p> <p>After Baghdad signed contracts to add around ten million barrels per day (bpd) to its oil supply, tough talks were expected within the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on an eventual output target for Iraq.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">But Iraqi oil minister Hussain Al Shahristani seems to have jumped straight to the end game before even sitting down at the negotiating table with his fellow ministers.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view/201005042_more_mideast_airlines_have_iraq_on_their_radar/" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>2 more Mideast airlines have Iraq on their radar – BostonHerald.com</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Two fast-growing Middle Eastern airlines said Tuesday they are considering starting up services to Iraq, looking to join the growing fleet of carriers serving the war-scarred country.</p> <p>The chief executives of FlyDubai and Qatar Airways each said they are weighing expansions to Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, including the Shiite holy city of Najaf and Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region.</p> <p>If the airlines go ahead, they will be joining a growing number of carriers — including Germany’s Lufthansa and Bahrain’s Gulf Air — entering the Iraqi market as security improves and business picks up.</p> <p>FlyDubai is also eyeing Sulaimaniyah in the north and Basra in the south, according to CEO Ghaith al-Ghaith. He told The Associated Press in an interview he is in talks with Iraqi and Emirati authorities to win approval for the routes.</p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p>here</p> <p>here</p> <p>here</p> <p> </p> <p>أخبار العراق</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9996"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/22/first-person-my-life-as-an-insurgent/#respond" title="Comment on First Person: My Life as an Insurgent">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Ra'ed Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/22/first-person-my-life-as-an-insurgent/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to First Person: My Life as an Insurgent">First Person: My Life as an Insurgent</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abu-musab-al-zarqawi/" rel="tag">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-anbar-governorate/" rel="tag">Al Anbar (Governorate)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-qaeda/" rel="tag">Al Qaeda</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/america/" rel="tag">America</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-rape-of-fallujah/" rel="tag">American rape of Fallujah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/awakening-councils/" rel="tag">Awakening Councils</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombing/" rel="tag">bombing</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/children/" rel="tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians/" rel="tag">Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-persecution-of/" rel="tag">Christians - 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I thought it was a civilised state. Unfortunately, after the invasion, the opposite proved true. </p> <p><a title="20100422_iwpr_fallujah_cpt_illustration_captioned by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4543712650/" class="external" target="_blank"><img height="388" alt="20100422_iwpr_fallujah_cpt_illustration_captioned" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4543712650_de0431d579_o.jpg" width="575"/></a></p> <p>President Bush didn’t send doctors and engineers, or construction and democracy specialists, or experts from NASA and Google. Instead, he sent uneducated gangsters who didn’t know anything about Arabic and Iraqi traditions. This was one of the main issues that triggered the resistance. </p> <p>When I saw the first US tanks in Fallujah in 2003 I opposed their presence, but at the same time I had always been against Saddam Hussein’s regime. I just wished that change would not have come from the outside. A perfect change would have been through a coup or an assassination, not an occupation. </p> <p>I joined al-Qaeda on April 28, 2003, after several US soldiers killed more than 13 Iraqi civilians from the rooftop of an elementary school in Hay al-Nazzal, south of Fallujah. The Iraqis were staging a demonstration and demanded that the Americans leave the school. </p> <p>The Americans killed the civilians and then refused to let us remove the dead bodies. It was then that I felt the rush to fight. (Editor’s note: The US military maintained that its soldiers were returning fire.) </p> <p>I met several young men who were thinking of attacking the school. At 1 am, eight of us went to the school carrying RPG7s and AK-47s, which we found at deserted Iraqi army bases. We were surprised to find another group preparing an attack. </p> <p>We quickly agreed to launch a coordinated assault. It lasted several minutes and we fled quickly, fearing strikes from Apaches and Blackhawks. </p> <p>The group we met was from al-Qaeda. </p> <h3>DRIVEN BY VENGEANCE </h3> <p>My goal in fighting the Americans was to force them to leave. </p> <p>The event that made me angry and committed to killing was when my best friend was killed in an air strike on a house in central Fallujah. He was passing by that house. </p> <p>My anger quickly subsided when I opened fire on a Marine and saw him collapse. I thought, “I’ve avenged my friend.” </p> <p>My brigade was responsible for engaging the Americans at a distance of less than 200 metres. We were 120 fighters in Fallujah. Only a few are still alive and even fewer would be objective and fair in telling the story. </p> <p>I had more than 60 engagements with the Americans while I was with al-Qaeda. I did not go out on a mission unless it was to fight them. I feel very lucky to have survived all of these operations. Perhaps it was God’s will that allowed me to survive and tell my story. </p> <p>Al-Qaeda’s combat technique is similar to guerrilla warfare. It is not systematic, which made it difficult for the Americans to fight back. If we were a regular army the Americans would have then be able to defeat us, but we were like the liquid that slips through your fingers. </p> <p>Some operations required a lot of planning while others only needed a few hours. The most difficult thing was staging a tactical retreat. Most of our casualties occurred not during our attack but when retreating. The Americans react quickly. Within a few minutes after each operation, their choppers and soldiers would show up and we would come under fire. </p> <p>As a result, we devised strategies such as wearing black clothing, hiding in trees and orchards and parking getaway cars at a distance. </p> <p>We received intelligence by bribing police, army and Shia sources. The Americans considered [Shia] more trustworthy than Sunni. </p> <p>We used to communicate using Thuraya (satellite) phones or through human contacts. We would meet as needed. Sometimes, we would have three meetings over several days, but a week could pass without a single gathering. </p> <p>One of the things we witnessed was how a 100 US dollar improvised explosive device, IED, was capable of destroying an armoured vehicle that cost one million dollars. The IEDs were the best weapon for al-Qaeda and the insurgents in Iraq. </p> <p>I never planted IEDs in cars. I was in a combat brigade against the Americans and this is why I am at ease with myself.  </p> <p>I was seriously wounded four times. We had a small clinic in central Fallujah that treated wounded Arab fighters who couldn’t go to public hospitals. This clinic had medical supplies and medicine donated by pharmacies. The doctors were in Fallujah. Some of them volunteered to treat the wounded. Others were sent for and would show up minutes later. </p> <p>Islam teaches us to tell the truth, even if it is against us. There was a Marine who fought bravely against us in 2004. He fiercely repelled many of our attacks on his own. But he couldn’t keep it up for long because he was outnumbered by al-Qaeda fighters. </p> <p>He went down during the engagement, clutching his dog tag. I respected him a lot because of his fighting. I wished that the Iraqi government had half of this Marine’s courage and his sacrifice. Iraq would have been a better place. </p> <h3>ARAB “MARTYRS” </h3> <p>My brigade consisted of Iraqis and foreign Arabs. The foreign Arabs didn’t want to spend time with us. They carried out their duties and went to their special headquarters in Fallujah, the location of which was constantly changing. </p> <p>This was one of the main reasons why we did not have strong relations with them. Iraqi (insurgency) leaders were always in direct contact with them. </p> <p>The sole mission of the foreign Arabs was to fight and die in Iraq. They looked at death as a wish that they wanted to come true so that they could go to heaven. </p> <p>Suicide or martyr operations, call them what you want, were carried out regularly. Sometimes, it got so competitive that every fighter wanted to drive a detonated car and attack an American or an Iraqi target. They even resorted to drawing lots. </p> <p>Before a suicide mission is carried out a ceremony is performed, a kind of party in which everyone bids farewell to the driver. During the farewell, there are religious songs, food, laughing and congratulations on his martyrdom. The ceremony concludes with the taping of his will, which is sent to his wife and family. </p> <p>In every ceremony that was held, I was assured that the Americans had found themselves in a real quagmire because al-Qaeda had come to Iraq to fight the Americans. They would go to Mars if they knew the Americans were there. There is so much hatred and I think it’s because of President Bush, the father and the son. It’s President Obama’s bad luck that he is burdened with past mistakes. </p> <p>The secret of al-Qaeda’s power was the Sunni tribes. They were aware of our plans and operations, and when we lost this factor we became weak. The Americans realised that and they bought them off. </p> <p>Al-Qaeda didn’t pay anyone. The fighting was voluntary and based on deep convictions. No one would take such extraordinary risks with his life for money or power. </p> <p>Back then, I worked as a teacher once or twice a week. The situation was unstable in Anbar so we only worked part-time. No one would go after you if you didn’t show up. </p> <p>My family was living in fear and apprehension. I felt how much my wife loved me then, more than at any other time. My wife, my son and my brother-in-law asked me to quit fighting because they feared for my life. But I ignored them just as a smoker ignores a doctor’s orders to quit. </p> <h3>QUESTIONING AL-QAEDA </h3> <p>My time with al-Qaeda was a bit unusual because I disagreed with them about many things, such as bombing markets, killing civilians, imposing fatwas (edicts) from Afghanistan and killing Shia. I did not think they should target Christians, American civilians and construction workers. This was very important to them. </p> <p>I was never involved in killing Iraqi forces, and this was one of the reasons I left al-Qaeda. I used to tell them that I was only fighting the occupiers, just like the Vietnamese, Somalis and Chechens who fought the Russians. They accused me of tarnishing my Islamic faith. </p> <p>I believed that a ceasefire was imperative for the Iraqi forces to take over security from the Americans. I thought that targeting the Iraqi forces would lengthen the occupation. </p> <p>Over time, things changed a lot. al-Qaeda was no longer supported among Sunni. It carried out executions and killed hundreds of people in markets. </p> <p>If al-Qaeda were to rule Iraq, it would not have succeeded because it prohibited so many things and imposed new rules. They saw Shia as infidels who should be killed. Christians were given three options: to pay tribute, convert to Islam or be killed.  </p> <p>Iraq is a complex country. It is impossible to apply al-Qaeda’s rules here because this is a diverse nation. Al-Qaeda would mean the end of Iraq. Everyone would have to flee or be killed. Barely one quarter of the population would have remained. </p> <p>I left al-Qaeda when I realised that things started to get out of control. Some of the fighters started to disobey orders after [local al-Qaeda leader] Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed. </p> <p>Zarqawi was a strongman who directed battles in Mosul and in Tal Afar through phone calls from Fallujah. No one dared to act without consulting him. I think if al-Qaeda finds a man with the same characteristics it will stage a huge comeback. </p> <p>The night I left, I told my neighbours and friends, including a fighter who was very close to me. I had always confided in him about my fears and my opposition to the future of the resistance and jihad because of the actions of some al-Qaeda fighters. </p> <p>I called another fighter and told him that my son was seriously ill. I said I would have to leave quickly for Syria and stay there for a long time. He told me that my wife could take care of my son, but I told him that she couldn’t survive without me. He was angry and I knew he didn’t believe me. </p> <p>I left quietly, as anyone with al-Qaeda should. I travelled at night with my family to Syria and stayed there for nine months. I rented my furnished house to a Baghdad displaced family. The rent helped me survive in Syria. </p> <h3>RETURN TO IRAQ </h3> <p>When I came back to Iraq, I discovered that all of the fighters I knew were killed, imprisoned or their whereabouts were unknown. </p> <p>I went to live with one of my relatives in another province. My wife and children went straight to our house to check the situation and see if I could return. </p> <p>After a few days, my wife confirmed that I was not being chased by the Sahwa (Sunni Awakening Councils) or al-Qaeda. I returned. The Sahwa didn’t pursue any of the fighters who killed Americans, but instead hunted those who carried operations against the tribes. </p> <p>Al-Qaeda’s biggest strength is its rigidity – its uncompromising, unyielding, non-negotiable stance. If al-Qaeda decides to assassinate someone, they will do it even if ten years have passed. Even if [a politician] leaves office, even if he is on deathbed, they will kill him with a kitchen knife because they see this as a religious obligation, just like praying, fasting and jihad. </p> <p>I am afraid of being assassinated by those who might believe that I betrayed them. For them, betrayal has many faces, and one is deserting the battlefield. Few people outside my circle of trust know about my involvement with the resistance and I fear them. </p> <p>Now it’s better to stand back and watch because the battle is not over yet. I worry that the Sunni may ask us to take up arms again if Iran gains political power after the US pullout. </p> <p>I used to support the US withdrawal but now I don’t want it to happen so quickly. They (the Americans) should end the Iranian influence before they pull out. If they withdraw and Iran is in Iraq this will create a new Sunni armed uprising. </p> <p>The US, the Iraqi government and a large number of al-Qaeda fighters damaged Iraq. This period of history will be revealed by me. I will tell the truth, as I saw it, to future generations. </p> <p>Abu Najim is the nom de guerre of a former Iraqi member of al-Qaeda in Anbar province. </p> <p>He told his story to an IWPR-trained journalist whose identity is not revealed due to security concerns.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.iwpr.net/report-news/first-person-my-life-insurgent" class="external" target="_blank">First Person: My Life as an Insurgent – IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9888"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/20/19-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 19-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Abdus-Samad</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4536503276/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="border-right: silver 2px solid; border-top: silver 2px solid; display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 65px 15px; border-left: silver 2px solid; border-bottom: silver 2px solid" alt="20100419_screenshot_latimes_malikis_secret_prisons" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242im_/http://static.flickr.com/4009/4536503276_f5a4e1c073.jpg" align="right"/></a>Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s military office, where many were routinely tortured until the country’s Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say. </p> <p>The men were detained by the Iraqi army in October in sweeps targeting Sunni groups in Nineveh province, a stronghold of the group Al Qaeda in Iraq and other militants in the north. The provincial governor alleged at the time that ordinary citizens had been detained as well, often without a warrant. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/africa/la-fg-iraq-prison19-2010apr19,0,4657710.story" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3>The Day In Quotes:</h3> <ol> <li><strong>Ammar al-Hakim on Allawi and Maliki</strong><strong>: </p> <p></strong>"We are talking about a person who should be accepted on a national level. This is the most important point because the prime minister is not going to be a prime minister of his own party or his political movement, but for all of Iraq … On such a basis, we find it’s difficult for Mr. Maliki or even Mr. Ayad Allawi to gain the needed acceptance." </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></li> <li><strong>Maliki on the killing of Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri</strong><strong>: <p></strong>"I give the happy tidings of the strike, which targeted and killed Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri, who were hiding in a hole in Tharthar area," </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/19/92419/two-al-qaida-leaders-killed-in.html" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></li> <li><strong>Kamal el-Saadi on the Electoral Commission Ordering A Recount in Baghdad</strong><strong>: <p></strong>"We expect that this will change the results for the benefit of State of Law,". </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63I1AT" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>:</strong> </li> </ol> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I12J.htm" class="external" target="_blank"> </p> <p> </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I12J.htm" class="external" target="_blank"></a><br/> <h3><font color="#800000">Political Coverage:</font></h3> </p> <blockquote><p><strong></strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq appeals panel orders manual ballot recount in Baghdad | Xinhua :</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>An Iraqi appeals panel ordered Monday manual recount for ballots in Baghdad after reviewing complaints by political blocs, an electoral commission official said. </p> <p>"The appeals panel tasked with reviewing the complaints of the political blocs about the parliamentary elections decided to carry out manual recount for Baghdad province only," Hamdiya al-Husseiny, a commission member told reporters. </p> <p>Earlier, several blocs, including incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc, demanded manual recount, claiming that hundreds of thousands of votes have been manipulated in five provinces. </p> <p>On April 11, Hachim al-Hassani, spokesman of Maliki’s bloc said that his bloc demanded manual recount of five provinces, including Baghdad, but he added that his bloc would accept manual recount even if it is at least only in Baghdad. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/19/c_13258385.htm"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraqi panel orders vote recount in Baghdad | Reuters: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Electoral commissioner Hamdiya al-Husseini said the manual recount would begin immediately but she was not sure how long it would take.</p> <p>The capital accounts for 68 seats in the 325-seat parliament, making it a key prize, and Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law alliance had been seeking a recount after coming a close second in the election.</p> <p>"We expect that this will change the results for the benefit of State of Law," said Kamal el-Saadi, a senior member of Maliki’s coalition.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63I1AT" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq Shiite cleric doubts front-runners in PM race – Yahoo! News: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The cleric who heads one of Iraq’s key Shiite political parties says neither front-runner in the March 7 parliamentary elections has enough popular support to lead country in the next government. </p> <p>Ammar al-Hakim of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council says he wouldn’t reject either candidate, if all sides jockeying for power since the inconclusive elections agree on one of them. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Turkey on Iraq’s side in all conditions: FM: Xinhua</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday that Turkey was and would be on Iraq’s side in all conditions. </p> <p>Davutoglu made the remarks at a joint press conference with the visiting Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi in the Turkish capital of Ankara. </p> <p>Turkey has good relations with all groups in Iraq, said Davutoglu, adding he is confident that all groups in Iraq would come together to build their country. </p> <p>Davutoglu said he discussed with al-Hashimi the post-election period in Iraq, adding Turkey views that the Iraqi parliament would possibly shape the next century of Iraq. </p> <p>For his part, al-Hashimi said the relations between Iraq and Turkey are "very constructive, successful and very clean." </p> <p>On his attitude towards the new Iraqi government, al-Hashimi said the most important thing in Iraq was to establish the new government according to the constitution. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/19/c_13258447.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Iraq says 2 top al-Qaida leaders killed — Maliki | xinhuanet: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki announced Monday the killing of top leaders of Qaida in Iraq network, Abu Omer al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Musri. </p> <p>"A cell from our intelligence killed Abu Omer al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Musri during operation in Thirthar area in north of Baghdad," Maliki told reporters in a news conference. </p> <p>Maliki said that the Iraqi intelligence was following the al- Qaida top leaders for long time and the Iraqi troops managed to capture some leading Qaida militants who led the Iraqi security forces to the whereabouts of the two most wanted Qaida leaders in Iraq. </p> <p>Maliki also said that his troops got support from the U.S. troops "by helping the Iraqi side in checking verifying the intelligence reports. </p> <p>He also showed the news conference pictures of the two killed Qaida leaders. </p> <p>Abu Omer al-Baghdadi is the head of the self-style Islamic State of Iraq, which is an al-Qaida-led umbrella organization of extremist Sunni militants groups. </p> <p>Abu Ayyub al-Musri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, is the top leader of al-Qaida in Iraq network, who replaced the former Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, when Zarqawi was killed in a U. S. airstrike on June 7, 2006. </p> <p>Zarqawi’s killing was expected to undermine the Qaida organisation, but the main blow to the terrorist networks came when their local Sunni insurgent allies turned on them, sickened by their indiscriminate bloodshed against both Shiite and Sunni communities.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/19/c_13258638.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>U.S. soldier dies in raid that kills top al Qaida in Iraq leaders | McClatchy: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraqi and U.S. security forces said Monday that they’d killed the two top leaders of al Qaida in Iraq in what the American military said could be the most significant blow to the militant Sunni Muslim organization since it was formed. </p> <p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki announced that the men known as Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri were killed Sunday in a raid in northern Iraq. He displayed photographs for state television of the bodies of Baghdadi and Masri, both noms de guerre for leaders of the group. </p> <p>"I give the happy tidings of the strike, which targeted and killed Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri, who were hiding in a hole in Tharthar area,” Maliki said at a news conference in Baghdad. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/19/92419/two-al-qaida-leaders-killed-in.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Al-Qaeda killing is a morale boost – but the fighting’s not over – Times Online</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The operation marks their biggest counter-terrorism success since the assassination three years ago of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the previous leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. His demise was even more of a headline-grabbing triumph than the killing on Sunday of his successor, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who headed the Islamic State of Iraq, a shadowy, Islamist umbrella group linked to al-Qaeda. </p> <p>Al-Zarqawi was a better-known figure, deployed extensively as a propaganda tool by both sides, with al-Qaeda using him to instil fear in its enemies, while the United States made him the face of an insurgency that was spiralling out of control. </p> <p>His death, however, failed to reduce the tempo of the sectarian slaughter and mass bombings that escalated under the command of al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who is thought to be Egyptian. </p> <p>With that in mind, it is very unlikely that his death and that of al-Baghdadi will signal the collapse of al-Qaeda in Iraq, because others will take over. </p> <p>What it will do, however, is damage morale and put even greater pressure on an organisation that has already seen its ability to wreak havoc undermined since 2007, when the US-led military stepped up its efforts against it.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7102312.ece" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>US soldier dies in non-combat incident in Iraq :</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat related injuries in Iraq.</p> <p>A statement by the military on Monday says the United States Division-South soldier died of injuries sustained in southern Iraq on Sunday.</p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The death raises to at least 4,392 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. That’s according to an Associated Press count.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_US_CASUALTIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-04-19-07-57-15" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong> :</strong></p> </blockquote> <div style="border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: silver 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: silver 1px solid"><strong>Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Military and civilian deaths in Iraq: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>A U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late on Saturday evening, the U.S. military said on Sunday. </p> <p>Following are the latest figures for soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003: </p> <p>U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: </p> <ul> <li>United States 4,391 </li> <li>Britain 179 </li> <li>Other nations 139 </li> </ul> <p>IRAQIS: </p> <ul> <li>Military Between 4,900 and 6,375# </li> <li>Civilians Between 95,888 and 104,595 * </li> </ul> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6371KB.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p></blockquote></div> <p> </p> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Carrefour leads the way into postwar Iraq – Times Online: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Carrefour is set to become the first multinational retailer to enter the Iraqi market since the war. The world’s second-largest retailer will open a two-storey store in Iraq’s Kurdish north in September. </p> <p>Although Iraq has attracted natural resources groups, the country’s GDP of about £2,400 a head, coupled with political and military instability, has meant it has struggled to attract customer-focused companies. </p> <p>Carrefour’s store in Arbil, one of northern Iraq’s largest cities, will be run by Majid al-Futtaim Group (MAF), the French hypermarket group’s Dubai- based Middle East franchise partner. The store will anchor a development that will include an ice rink, a cinema complex and a bowling alley, according to the Arbil-based Kurdish Globe. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article7102270.ece" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Health Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Cancer of the conflict zone: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>When my sister, 101st Airborne Army Capt. Chaplain Fran E. Stuart, returned from Iraq, she was forever changed. </p> <p>Not only had the desert sand, gun blasts and heat penetrated her psyche during her one-year deployment, but a carcinogen had made its way into her body as well. Unbeknown to her, the carcinogen was making a home in my sister’s body, along with the Anthrax vaccine, depleted uranium, burn pit smoke and contaminated water dished up at every meal. </p> <p>In March 2006, when my sister was 41, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive, stage-IV dysgerminoma cancer, also called “germ cell” cancer, which is usually only seen in pregnant women and teenage girls. The cancer was advancing quickly, wrapping itself around her internal organs like an octopus and gathering fuel from her central abdomen. My sister was flown to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for immediate surgery and further testing, when a volleyball-sized tumor was removed from her abdomen. Fortunately, doctors were able to corral her cancer, but only after 10 months and 35 rounds of exhaustive chemotherapy. She wasn’t the only one undergoing such trauma. While visiting her at Walter Reed, I witnessed many soldiers returning from Iraq with cancer, unknown to the public and unacknowledged by the military. Walter Reed had two floors dedicated solely to the soldiers arriving daily with cancer. Their lives were spared on the battlefield, but the cancer was ravaging their bodies from within.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2010/April/opinion_April116.xml&section=opinion&col=" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p> <strong>Blackwater Officials Indicted for Weapons Violations: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Last week, the Justice Department announced that a federal grand jury had returned a fifteen-count indictment against five current and former Blackwater officials, charging them with conspiracy to violate a series of federal gun laws, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Among those indicted were Blackwater owner Erik Prince’s longtime right-hand man, former company president Gary Jackson, Blackwater’s former legal counsel Andrew Howell and two former company vice presidents. Given Blackwater’s track record and the severity of other allegations against the company–including killing unarmed civilians–if the charges in this case stick, it would be somewhat akin to Al Capone going down for tax evasion. The one major difference being, the number-one man at Blackwater, Erik Prince, is evading prosecution and jail. Prince, who remains the Blackwater empire’s sole owner, was not indicted. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p>Meanwhile, as Blackwater officials face another round of attempted criminal prosecutions, the company continues to fight off the remaining civil lawsuits stemming from the Nisour Square shooting. Last year Blackwater settled with most of the victims, reportedly for a total of $5 million. The only remaining suit against the company over Nisour Square was brought by a small group of Iraqis, most prominent among them Mohammed Kinani, the father of the youngest known victim of the shooting. His 9-year-old son, Ali, was shot in the head that day and died shortly after from his injuries. Kinani originally sued Blackwater in state court in North Carolina, but last week a federal judge sided with Blackwater and took control over the case. That judge, Terrence Boyle, was a former legislative aide to the late Republican Senator Jesse Helms, who urged President Ronald Reagan to appoint Boyle, which Reagan did. For more than a decade, Democrats blocked Boyle’s nomination to the appelate court, characterizing him as an ultraconservative who opposed civil rights and was often over-ruled on appeal. It is hard to imagine a better judge for Blackwater to draw in this case. <p>As it has done in other cases, Blackwater has asked the Obama Justice Department to intervene in Kinani’s case and to make the US government–not Blackwater and the individual shooters in the case–the defendant. Legal experts have told The Nation that if the Justice Department did that, the case would be dead in the water. The Justice Department has not responded to Blackwater’s request. Blackwater, however, is not wasting any time seeking out alternatives. </p> <p>On April 7, lawyers for the six alleged shooters and Blackwater asked Judge Boyle to replace Blackwater and the shooters with the "United States" in the case, citing the Westfall Act, which was passed in 1988 "to protect federal employees from personal liability for common law torts committed within the scope of their employment, while providing persons injured by the common law torts of federal employees with an appropriate remedy against the United States." If Boyle were to do this, the case would likely be immediately dismissed. </p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/scahill2" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>:</strong><strong> </strong></p></blockquote> <p><strong>Embedded war reporting cannot escape its own bias | Alison Banville | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>The boast of "greater reality" attached to embedding is a falsehood which actually clouds the vision of anyone attempting to make sense of a conflict. News channels showing reports from journalists embedded with British troops while failing to give equal airtime to reports from embeds with opposing forces or civilians qualifies not only as blatant bias, it is fertile territory for propaganda. So why are we so eager to accommodate embeds?</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/18/embedded-war-reporting-iraq-afghanistan" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Does Saudi Arabia Really Want a United Iraq? | By Reidar Visser | The Gulf Research Unit’s Blog: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The list of Iraqi guests at the palace in Riyadh over the past weeks prompts numerous questions about Saudi policy towards its eastern neighbour. For several years now, Riyadh’s Iraq policy has been a lot more passive than that of Iran, characterised by more muttering than meddling, and with relatively few attempts to reach out more broadly beyond Sunni-oriented leaders. For a long time it seemed as if the Saudi leaders still held on to futile dreams of an Iraq where Shiites could be almost excluded, as indicated for example by reports that Riyadh played a role in scuppering the tentative but promising alliance between Abu Risha (the awakening leader of Anbar) and Nuri al-Maliki last summer.</p> <p>But with recent visits to Riyadh by ISCI’s Ammar al-Hakim and Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Masud Barzani, it is clear that the problem does not have to do with insurmountable ethno-sectarian barriers, but rather with the Saudi choice of guests. Between them, messieurs Hakim, Talabani and Barzani must take the lion’s share of the responsibility for the virtual wrecking of the Iraqi state through the design of the new, highly decentralising Iraqi constitution in 2005, as well as subsequent measures between 2005 and 2007 to consolidate the new order (including a law on implementing federalism south of Kurdistan). By way of contrast, Nuri al-Maliki, the Shiite leader who has made the greatest attempts at reversing some of the unfortunate results of the 2005 constitution, especially since 2008, was not invited to Riyadh.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gulfunit.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/does-saudi-arabia-really-want-a-united-iraq/" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p><strong>The Manual Recount in Baghdad: What Maliki Wants « Iraq and Gulf Analysis: </strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Prime minister Nuri al-Maliki and his SLA have been the driving force in demanding the recount. To better understand their aims it may be useful to revert to what a Maliki adviser, Ali al-Musawi, told media about their coalition visions back on 16 March, at a time when Maliki and Allawi were still neck and neck. He then said that SLA was looking to form a “political majority” with the “Kurds, parts of the Iraqi National Alliance, parts of Iraqiyya, Tawafuq and other small parties”. This would in many ways mean a return to the situation in 2007, after the defection of the Sadrists (November 2006, after the Maliki-Bush meeting) but before that of Tawafuq and Iraqiyya in the summer), though with Maliki in a relatively stronger position vis-à-vis the decentralisers among the Kurds and ISCI. It has also been suggested that the United States and Saudi Arabia would be happy with this kind of outcome, even though the ideological contradictions would still be much bigger than in a smaller, centralist Iraqiyya/SLA government, and to call it a “political majority” would be something of a euphemism.</p> <p> <br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gulfanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/the-manual-recount-in-baghdad-what-maliki-wants/#comments" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9462"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/31/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-for-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime/#respond" title="Comment on Destroying Educational Institutions or Using Them for Military Purposes Is a War Crime">No 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">مدينة الصدر‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-crimes/" rel="tag">War Crimes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">الإسلام‎</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p> </p> <p>"The Education system in Iraq, prior to 1991, was one of the best in the region; with over 100% Gross Enrollment Rate for primary schooling and high levels of literacy, both of men and women. The Higher Education, especially the scientific and technological institutions, were of an international standard, staffed by high quality personnel." (UNESCO Fact Sheet, March 28, 2003)[1].</p> <p>As a result of the ongoing US Occupation of Iraq, today Iraq is more illiterate than it was five or 25 years ago because the US administration and the US forces occupying Iraq began to root and destroy every aspect of Iraq’s education.</p> <p>The Iraqi educational system was the target of US military action because education is the backbone of any society. Without an efficient education system, no society can function, wrote Ghali Hassan in May 2005.[2] Facts have proven him right. This is also one of the conclusions of the book "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq."[3]</p> <p><strong>Random Facts</strong></p> <p>A recent UNESCO report, "Education Under Attack 2010 – Iraq," dated 10 February 2010, concluded, "Although overall security in Iraq had improved, the situation faced by schools, students, teachers and academics remained dangerous."[4] The destruction of Iraq’s education is ongoing.</p> <p>Let’s present a few random facts that give an idea of the scale of the destruction of Iraq’s education sector under occupation:</p> <blockquote><ul> <li>The director[5] of the United Nations University International Leadership Institute published a report[6] on April 27, 2005, detailing that since the start of the war of 2003 some 84 percent of Iraq’s higher education institutions have been burnt, looted or destroyed[7]. </li> <li>Like most higher education institutions across Iraq, Baghdad University escaped almost unscathed from the bombing. In the subsequent looting and burning, 20 of the capital’s colleges were destroyed. No institution escaped: the faculty of education in Waziriyya was raided daily for two weeks; the veterinary college in Abu Ghraib lost all its equipment; two buildings in the faculty of fine arts stand smoke-blackened against the skyline. In every college, in every classroom, you could write "education" in the dust on the tables.[8] </li> <li>Ongoing violence has destroyed school buildings, and about a quarter of all Iraq’s primary schools need major rehabilitation. Since March 2003, more than 700 primary schools have been bombed, 200 have been burnt and over 3,000 looted. </li> <li>Between March 2003 and October 2008, 31,598 violent attacks against educational institutions were reported in Iraq, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE).[9] </li> <li>Since 2007, bombings at Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad have killed or maimed more than 335 students and staff members, according to a October 19, 2009, New York Times article, and a 12-foot-high blast wall has been built around the campus.[10] </li> <li>"Education under Attack (2007) reported that 296 people serving as education staff were killed in 2005; and 180 teachers were killed between February and November 2006.[11] </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>These are just a few examples to highlight the level of cultural genocide in Iraq. The list is endless, the real number of casualties much higher. More information can be found in the book "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq" and in the BRussells Tribunal archives on Iraqi education under occupation, perhaps the most comprehensive database on the Internet about the assassination of Iraqi academics and the destruction of Iraq’s education.[12] Our campaign to protect Iraqi academics[13] is still ongoing, because the tragedy continues. The UNESCO report "Education Under Attack 2010 – Iraq" is very clear: "Attacks on education targets continued throughout 2007 and 2008 at a lower rate – but one that would cause serious concern in any other country." Why didn’t it cause serious concern? Is it because it’s of US design?</p> <p>The petition we issued, also containing a call for action, is still valid today and can still be signed: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.petitiononline.com/Iraqacad/petition.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/Iraqacad/petition.html</a>. An excerpt:</p> <blockquote><p>1. We appeal to organisations which work to enforce or defend international humanitarian law to put these crimes on the agenda.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p>2. We request that an independent international investigation be launched immediately to probe these extrajudicial killings. This investigation should also examine the issue of responsibility to clearly identify who is accountable for this state of affairs. We appeal to the special rapporteur on summary executions at UNHCHR in Geneva.</p> <p>We urge that educators mobilise colleagues and concerned citizens to take up the cause of the salvation of Iraq’s intellectual wealth, by organising seminars, teach-ins and forums on the plight of Iraq’s academics.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Occupying Schools</strong></p> <p>When writing "Killing the Intellectual Class" for the book "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq," I added a short story about occupation of schools by the MNF-I (Multinational Force-Iraq, the official name of the American-led foreign forces):</p> <blockquote><p>"it certainly is our policy to not establish military headquarters or other operations in protected areas under the Geneva Convention," said Lt. Col. Gary Keck, a spokesman for the Department of Defense in Washington, when a journalist asked why the US army occupied a girls’ and boys’ school of a town in northern Iraq.[14]</p> </blockquote> <p>At a UN press briefings in Amman on April 30, 2003, the question was asked:" Do you know of any other schools that are still occupied and would you ask them of making a point to stay away from the schools, so they can be rehabilitated?"</p> <p>S. Ingram answered, "I am not aware of any other places that this situation holds. I remember the incident you referred to, there was a school in the north and some contacts were necessary to persuade the US troops there to leave the premises, which they subsequently did. I am not aware of any other places were schools are being occupied."[15]</p> <p>"I am not aware" – a pack of lies. Because occupying schools is exactly what the US Army did (and still does) on a regular basis. I heard and read numerous eyewitness accounts about Iraqi protests after US forces occupied schools and educational institutions.</p> <p>The origins of armed resistance in Fallujah f.i. can be traced almost precisely to April 28, 2003, when US troops, who had arrived in the city five days earlier, massacred 17 apparently unarmed protesters. The April 28 protest had demanded an end to Fallujah’s occupation and, more specifically, that US troops vacate the al Qaid primary school, where classes had been scheduled to resume on April 29.[16]</p> <p>And it continued. On February 29, 2008, the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMSI) published a press release condemning the American occupation forces for the seizure of an Islamic Secondary School in Baghdad.</p> <p>On May 1, 2008, the Iraqi News Agency "Voices of Iraq," reported, "The US military withdrew from a building of the education department in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, which they used it as a barrack last month."[17]</p> <p>This was basically all the hard information I had found about the occupation of educational institutions by the occupation forces and I thought the evidence was a little thin to make a decent case, so I decided not to use it for the book.</p> <p>But, now, I read in the UNESCO report 2010: "MNF-I, the Iraqi Army and Iraqi police units occupied more than 70 school buildings for military purposes in the Diyala governorate alone."[18]</p> <p>This is only in one province. There’s no information at my disposal about the other regions, but we can almost certainly conclude that occupying schools by occupation forces was/is a general phenomenon throughout Iraq. Where else would you station a one million strong army and security forces?</p> <p>On April 11, 2003, a number of Iraqi scientists and university professors sent an SOS email complaining American occupation forces were threatening their lives.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime58159#19">[19]</a> The appeal message said that looting and robberies were taking place under the watchful eye of the occupation soldiers.</p> <p>The occupation soldiers, the email added, were transporting mobs to the scientific institutions, such as Mosul University and different educational institutions, to destroy scientific research centers and confiscate all papers and documents to nip in the bud any Iraqi scientific renaissance.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime58159#20">[20]</a></p> <p>John Agresto, in charge of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in 2003-2004, initially believed that the looting of Iraq’s universities was a positive act in that it would allow such institutions to begin again with a clean slate, with the newest equipment as well as a brand new curriculum.[21]</p> <p>The Hague IV Conventions<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime58159#22">[22] </a>on Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1917, make explicit, in Article 56, that educational institutions are to be regarded as private property, and, thus, must not be pillaged or destroyed, that occupying forces in war are bound to protect such property and that proceedings should follow their intentional damage, seizure or destruction. Article 55 reinforces this duty relative to all public buildings and capital. Further, an occupying power is obliged, according to Articles 43 and 46, to protect life and take all steps in its power to re-establish and ensure "public order and safety."</p> <p>In addition, The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict[23] (ratified by the Republic of Iraq in 1967) creates a clear obligation to protect museums, libraries, archives, and other sites of cultural property. Paragraph 1 of Article 4 notes: "The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect cultural property situated within their own territory as well as within the territory of other High Contracting Parties by refraining from any use of the property and its immediate surroundings or of the appliances in use for its protection for purposes which are likely to expose it to destruction or damage in the event of armed conflict; and by refraining from any act of hostility, directed against such property."</p> <p>Using schools and universities for military purposes; destroying educational institutions and assisting in looting; criminal neglect when educational staff is being harassed and assassinated; dismantling the Iraqi education system; and active involvement in training, funding and arming murderous militia’s … War crime upon war crime upon war crime.</p> <p>When will there be justice for Iraq? When will there be a serious investigation into these crimes by official international human rights bodies? And who will charge the successive Anglo-American administrations for war crimes and crimes against humanity?</p> <p><a name="1">[1] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=11216&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=11216&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</a></p> <p><a name="2">[2] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HAS505B.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HAS505B.html</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&CID=BRUSSELLS" name="3">[3] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&CID=BRUSSELLS" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&CID=BRUSSELLS</a></p> <p><a name="4">[4]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="5">[5]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.la.unu.edu/about_staff_reddy.asp" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.la.unu.edu/about_staff_reddy.asp</a></p> <p><a name="6">[6]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.unu.edu/news/ili/Iraq.doc" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unu.edu/news/ili/Iraq.doc</a></p> <p><a name="7">[7] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academicspetition.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academicspetition.htm</a></p> <p><a name="8">[8] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/academicsArticles.htm#weed-out" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/academicsArticles.htm#weed-out</a></p> <p><a name="9">[9]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="10">[10] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/2009-10/March/Iraq-professor-409.cfm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/2009-10/March/Iraq-professor-409.cfm</a></p> <p><a name="11">[11]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="12">[12]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/AcademicsResources.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/AcademicsResources.htm</a></p> <p><a name="13">[13]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm</a></p> <p><a name="14">[14] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0404/p07s01-woiq.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0404/p07s01-woiq.html</a></p> <p><a name="15">[15]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/iraq/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=509&sID=9" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/iraq/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=509&sID=9</a></p> <p><a name="16">[16] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2183.cfm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2183.cfm</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/17/iraq.rorymccarthy" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/17/iraq.rorymccarthy</a></p> <p><a name="17">[17]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-01-05-2008&article=30525" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-01-05-2008&article=30525</a></p> <p><a name="18">[18] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/12/article02.shtml" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="19">[19] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/12/article02.shtml" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/12/article02.shtml</a></p> <p><a name="20">[20]</a> Dirk Adriaensens in "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq," p. 119. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&</a></p> <p><a name="21">[21] </a>Nabil al-Tikriti in "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq," p. 98. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&</a></p> <p><a name="22">[22] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague04.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague04.htm</a></p> <p><a name="23">[23]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13637&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ">http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13637&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html </a></p> <p><a title="t r u t h o u t | Destroying Educational Institutions or Using Them for Military Purposes Is a War Crime" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.truthout.org/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime58159" class="external" target="_blank">t r u t h o u t | Destroying Educational Institutions or Using Them for Military Purposes Is a War Crime</a></p> <p>Source: Dirk Adriaensens <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/" class="external" target="_blank">People vs Total War Incorporated</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics230310.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Destroying Educational Institutions or Using them for Military Purposes is a War Crime</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" 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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/international-atomic-energy-agency/" rel="tag">International Atomic Energy Agency</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion-of-iraq/" rel="tag">invasion of iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/neural-tube-defects/" rel="tag">neural tube defects</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/occupation/" rel="tag">occupation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/oncology-center/" rel="tag">oncology center</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/radiation-protection-centre/" rel="tag">Radiation Protection Centre</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/radioactive-contamination-in-soil/" rel="tag">radioactive contamination in soil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/soil-contamination/" rel="tag">soil contamination</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tuwaitha-nuclear-reactors/" rel="tag">Tuwaitha Nuclear Reactors</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>• Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites <br/>• Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in report</p> <p>Areas in and near Iraq’s largest towns and cities, including Najaf, Basra and Falluja, account for around 25% of the contaminated sites, which appear to coincide with communities that have seen increased rates of cancer and birth defects over the past five years. The joint study by the environment, health and science ministries found that scrap metal yards in and around Baghdad and Basra contain high levels of ionising radiation, which is thought to be a legacy of depleted uranium used in munitions during the first Gulf war and since the 2003 invasion.</p> <p>The environment minister, Narmin Othman, said high levels of dioxins on agricultural lands in southern Iraq, in particular, were increasingly thought to be a key factor in a general decline in the health of people living in the poorest parts of the country.</p> <p> </p> <p> <a title="20100122_toxic_zones_map_guardian" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4297487788/" class="external" target="_blank"><img title="20100122 Toxic zones in Iraq Map Guardian" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="20100122 Toxic zones in Iraq Map Guardian" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242im_/http://static.flickr.com/4061/4297487788_a56a619516.jpg" border="0"/></a> <p>"If we look at Basra, there are some heavily polluted areas there and there are many factors contributing to it," she told the Guardian. "First, it has been a battlefield for two wars, the Gulf war and the Iran-Iraq war, where many kinds of bombs were used. Also, oil pipelines were bombed and most of the contamination settled in and around Basra.</p> <p>"The soil has ended up in people’s lungs and has been on food that people have eaten. Dioxins have been very high in those areas. All of this has caused systemic problems on a very large scale for both ecology and overall health."</p> <p>Government study groups have recently focused on the war-ravaged city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, where the unstable security situation had kept scientists away ever since fierce fighting between militants and US forces in 2004.,</p> <p>"We have only found one area so far in Falluja," Othman said. "But there are other areas that we will try to explore soon with international help."</p> <p>The Guardian reported in November <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects" class="external" target="_blank">claims by local doctors of a massive rise in birth defects</a> in the city, particularly neural tube defects, which afflict the spinal cords and brains of newborns. "We are aware of the reports, but we must be cautious in reaching conclusions about causes," Othman said. "The general health of the city is not good. There is no sewerage system there and there is a lot of stagnant household waste, creating sickness that is directly affecting genetics. We do know, however, that a lot of depleted uranium was used there.</p> <p>"We have been regulating and monitoring this and we have been urgently trying to assemble a database. We have had co-operation from the United Nations environment programme and have given our reports in Geneva. We have studied 500 sites for chemicals and depleted uranium. Until now we have found 42 places that have been declared as [high risk] both from uranium and toxins."</p> <p>Ten of those areas have been classified by Iraq’s nuclear decommissioning body as having high levels of radiation. They include the sites of three former nuclear reactors at the Tuwaitha facility – once the pride of Saddam Hussein’s regime on the south-eastern outskirts of Baghdad – as well as former research centres around the capital that were either bombed or dismantled between the two Gulf wars.</p> <p>The head of the decommissioning body, Adnan Jarjies, said that when inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived to "visit these sites, I tell them that even if we have all the best science in the world to help us, none of them could be considered to be clean before 2020."</p> <p>Bushra Ali Ahmed, director of the Radiation Protection Centre in Baghdad, said only 80% of Iraq had so far been surveyed. "We have focused so far on the sites that have been contaminated by the wars," he said. "We have further plans to swab sites that have been destroyed by war.</p> <p>"A big problem for us is when say a tank has been destroyed and then moved, we are finding a clear radiation trail. It takes a while to decontaminate these sites."</p> <p>Scrap sites remain a prime concern. Wastelands of rusting cars and war damage dot Baghdad and other cities between the capital and Basra, offering unchecked access to both children and scavengers.</p> <p>Othman said Iraq’s environmental degradation is being intensified by an acute drought and water shortage across the country that has seen a 70% decrease in the volume of water flowing through the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.</p> <p>"We can no longer in good conscience call ourselves the land between the rivers," she said. "A lot of the water we are getting has first been used by Turkey and Syria for power generation. When it reaches us it is poor quality. That water which is used for agriculture is often contaminated. We are in the midst of an unmatched environmental disaster."</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/iraq-nuclear-contaminated-sites/print" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds | World news | guardian.co.uk</a> by Martin Chulov in Baghdad </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120242/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombing/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div class="span-10" id="tabs"> <ul> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#featured-articles">Featured Articles</a></li> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#latest-articles">Latest Articles</a></li> </ul> <div id="featured-articles" class="widget"> <ul> <li><a 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